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- Telecom Revenue Up 9 Percent, FCC Reports.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Sep. 26--Telecommunications carriers saw revenue rise 9 percent from 1998 to 1999 with wireless service and competitive local phone service leading the way, according to a Federal Communications Commission report released Monday. Sep. 26--Telecommunications carriers saw revenue rise 9 percent from 1998 to...
- Research articles 2000-09-26
- FCC order calls for expansion of phone service in low-income areas
- OKLAHOMA CITY AP -- A new federal mandate should let low-income Oklahomans living on or near tribal lands receive phone service without increasing Oklahoma Universal Service Fund charges, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission said.
- Research articles 2000-09-05
- FCC Allows Bell Atlantic into New York Long-Distance Market.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 23--Competition for phone service is breaking out all over the place. Too bad that place is across the Hudson. Dec. 23--Competition for phone service is breaking out all over the place. Too bad that place is across the Hudson.
- Research articles 1999-12-22
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- Phone service in months ahead.
- Better phone service in months ahead. BellSouth, Verizon, Qwest and SBC Communications, which provide nearly 80% of local phone service, are improving customer service, but not for fear of losing your account. The Baby Bells are trying to prove their quality to regulators. ...
- Research articles 2002-05-03
- Globalstar USA Licensed to Offer Satellite Phone Service.(Brief Article)
- Globalstar USA, the exclusive provider of satellite-based communications services in the US, has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission FCC to market satellite phone service on a limited basis to US customers. The Globalstar system is a state-of-the-art mobile satellite service that extends the coverage...
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Ontus Telecommunications Corp Teams with Level 3 for Voice over IP Phone Service
- PORTLAND, Ore. -- Ontus Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: ONTT), an FCC licensed international and long distance communications carrier, today announced it has signed an agreement that makes Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:LVLT) the underlying Voice over IP VoIP provider for its VoIP phone service. Under the new contract, Ontus will use...
- Research articles 2004-10-18
- SBC Likely to Win Approval to Sell Long-Distance Phone Service in Illinois.
- By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 15--SBC Communications Inc. is expected to win approval to sell long-distance phone service in Illinois and three other Midwestern states on Wednesday from the Federal Communications Commission. The approval appears...
- Research articles 2003-10-15
- Consumers union renews call to FCC for improved service. (News).
- Taking their cue from consumers frustrated with cloudy calling plans, dead zones in mobile networks, hidden charges and disparate network technologies, Consumer Reports magazine and its affiliated Consumers Union trade group, say they have renewed their efforts to get Washington, D.C., policy-makers to look at wireless...
- Research articles 2002-01-14
- FCC to Vote on Rule Adjustments on Network Sharing for Local Phone Service.
- By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 20--The future of competitive local phone service could change Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission votes on rule adjustments that govern how local Bell companies share their networks with rivals. ...
- Research articles 2003-02-20
- The FCC And Tribal Lands: Politics And The Bully Pulpit.(Industry Trend or Event)
- WASHINGTON--Wireless carriers were steadily gaining momentum in their efforts to tap the federal subsidies supporting rural areas, including tribal lands, but an apparent glory grab by the White House has cast a pall over their initiative. So far there hasn't been...
- Research articles 2000-04-24
- FCC Queries Google About Google Voice
- Two weeks after AT&T asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate what it considered to be anti-competitive behavior as it relates to Google Voice, the commission penned a letter to Google asking it to answer questions about the service. "In light of pending commission proceedings regarding concern about so-called 'access...
- News items 2009-10-09
- FCC takes a closer look at wireless industry
- The Federal Communications Commission plans to look more closely at the wireless industry as it scrutinizes everything from the industry's billing practices to the state of innovation and competition in the market.The commission, headed up by newly appointed chairman Julius Genachowski, on August 27 will open up two "notice of...
- News items 2009-08-21
- FCC discusses barriers to national broadband plan
- The Federal Communications Commission met Wednesday to discuss obstacles to enacting a national broadband policy that will provide high-speed Internet access to every American.President Obama has made universal broadband access a key goal. Grants and loans for helping make universal broadband access a reality have already started being doled out...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Hurdles remain as FCC ponders Internet rules
- WASHINGTON - With Democrats in charge in Washington, supporters of so-called "net neutrality" rules seem poised to finally push through requirements that high-speed Internet providers give equal treatment to all data flowing over their networks. These rules — at the heart of a five-year policy debate — are intended to...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?
- The wireless industry is about to find out what it's like to be under Washington's microscope. The FCC this week announced efforts to further study competitive landscape of the mobile wireless market and determine whether consumers have the necessary information they need to make informed decisions about mobile phones and...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Lawmakers Seek FCC Probe of Google Voice
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Inc's ability to block calls to rural telephone exchanges. Google's Voice service is at the heart of a dispute between the world's largest Internet search company...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Lawmaker Targets Smart Phone Early Termination Fees
- Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar fires off letters to Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell C. McAdam and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski criticizing Verizon Wireless' decision to double the penalty fees to $350 for smart phone subscribers who leave their contracts early.Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) fired off a letter Nov....
- News items 2009-11-11
- AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too
- AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Cable praises FCC's phone rules rewrite.(telephone service and pricing rules)
- Some lawmakers still concerned about universal service Insisting that it's still interested in the phone business, the cable industry last week applauded the FCC's vast rewrite of telephone service and pricing rules. "We're pleased ...
- Research articles 1997-05-12
- "Flunking numbers" report: U.S. colleges face staggering annual increase of up to half a billion dollars in higher phone/web line taxes under FCC plan; Shifting to phone lines/other connection as basis for Universal Service Fund (USF) fee would
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 May 2006-USF Fair Coalition: "Flunking numbers" report: U.S. colleges face staggering annual increase of up to half a billion dollars in higher phone/web line taxes under FCC plan; Shifting to phone lines/other connection as basis for Universal Service Fund USF fee would mean increased...
- Research articles 2006-05-12
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